Hey Dateline fans! As a bonus for you, we’re sharing the trailer for Deadly Mirage, an all-new original podcast series from Dateline and Josh Mankiewicz. The story takes place in the Silver Lakes, a lush manmade oasis in California’s Mojave Desert, where Rob and Sabrina Limon seem to have the perfect life: two young children, a beautiful home, and a tight-knit group of friends. But when Rob is found murdered, investigators uncover deep secrets about sex, friendship and religion that shatter carefully crafted illusions... Follow now to get the first two episodes on Tuesday, December 3 completely free. Or subscribe to Dateline Premium on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or DatelinePremium.com to hear the first two episodes now. Subscribers receive ad-free listening and early access to subsequent episodes.
Chapter 1: What is the setting of Deadly Mirage?
They called it the happiest place on the high desert, the perfect place to raise a family. It was sort of Palm Springs light, the big, spacious houses, families with kids running around, bikes in the streets. It looked like kind of the American dream neighborhood.
Chapter 2: Who are the main characters in the story?
It was a desert oasis, lush and green, home to a tight-knit group of 30-somethings who liked to party.
Woo! Come run!
Chapter 3: What secrets are revealed in this perfect community?
and took to heart the biblical commandment to love thy neighbor.
Chapter 4: What role does friendship play in the narrative?
My wife and I and Rob and Sabrina would engage in sexual activities.
If that's what a couple agrees with in their marriage, then that's their business.
Chapter 5: How does a sudden outsider change the dynamics?
Then one day, a handsome outsider crashed the party. I started getting text messages saying, I would love to come hang out with you guys.
Soon, discord descended on this Eden, east of Los Angeles. The people were so cruel.
Chapter 6: What leads to the tragedy in this oasis?
I had to get a restraining order.
And a sudden death reveals the happiest place to be, a mirage.
He knew his attacker. That's somebody who knew intimate details about his life.
Our latest podcast takes us to a railroad outpost on the edge of California's high desert, where passion leads to murder. And a killer seeks God's help with the cover-up.
Whatever the crime lab has found, God... Please help this to be a method, a mode that keeps our stories being told.
It's a story about love and betrayal. Does she know you guys cooperate?
Yeah. I didn't trust her from day one. From the first time I met her, I did not trust her.
It's about indiscretions and a string of bad choices.
Her frustrations became my frustrations. Her demons became my demons. Do you make decisions on your own at any point?
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